Morrison’s “Beloved” and Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” have been added back to the HUM syllabus this spring, as ...

50 years ago, The New York Times Book Review asked Toni Morrison to write an essay on a subject she knew intimately. Was it Black American History? Nope. Literature? Guess again! The struggle to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Toni Morrison remains one of the most powerful voices in American literature, with her works transcending mere storytelling to examine the complexities of African American life ...

Susan Mayberry, Jane Peterson Professor of the Humanities in Alfred University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was recognized for her ...

The Norman Rockwell Museum and The Mount present Readings at Rockwell, a new literary series featuring dramatic readings of ...

The owner of Socialight Society, a Lansing-based store specializing in books written by Black women, shares some ...

The U.S. Department of Education also dismissed multiple complaints related to book bans in the days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...